Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

[A retreat is sounded

The trumpets sound retreat, the day is ours.
Come, brother, let's to the highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.

[Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and PRINCE JOHN. FAL. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, heaven reward him! If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. [Exit, bearing off the body.

SCENE V.—Another part of the Field.

The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, PRINCE JOHN, WESTMORELAND, and others, with WORCESTER and VERNON, prisoners.

K. HEN. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
Ill-spirited Worcester! did we not send grace,
Pardon, and terms of love, to all of you ?
And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?
Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
Three knights upon our party slain to-day,
A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,

If, like a christian, thou hadst truly borne

Betwixt our armies true intelligence.

WOR. What I have done my safety urg'd me to;

And I embrace this fortune patiently,

Since not to be avoided it falls on me.

K. HEN. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too:

Other offenders we will pause upon.—

[Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded.

How goes the field?

P. HEN. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he saw The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,

The noble Percy slain, and all his men

Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;

And, falling from a hill, he was so bruis'd

That the pursuers took him. At my tent
The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace
I may dispose of him.

K. HEN.

With all my heart.

P. HEN. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong:

Go to the Douglas, and deliver him

Up to his pleasure, ransomless, and free:

His valour, shown upon our crests to-day,

Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,

Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

[P. JOHN. I thank your grace for this high courtesy, Which I shall give away immediately.]

K. HEN. Then this remains,-that we divide our power.
You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland,
Towards York shall bend you, with your dearest spced,
To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,
Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:

Myself, and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower and the earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of such another day:
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[Exeunt

"No more the thirsty Erinnys of this soil." (ACT I., Sc. I.)

This, suggested by Mason, is the received reading of the variorum editions, except that of 1821. Erinnys is the goddess of discord. The original has,—

"No more the thirsty entrance of

We should be inclined to prefer crannies, did not entrance give a perfectly clear meaning, if we receive it in the sense of "mouth," as in the passage in Genesis, where the first murderer is "cursed from the earth." The porous earth daubs her lips with her children's blood.

"Shall we buy treason and indent with foes." (ACT I., Sc. 3.)

The original, has "indent with fears." We have, in our previous editions, substituted feres, in the sense given in the 'Glossary.' The reading of the MS. Corrector is that given above.

"Why, what a wasp-stung and This is the reading of the first quarto. The folio has " wasptongue," which is usually printed wasp-tongued.

It seems necessary to make some change in the original text; and our reader may choose between the two before him. The use of the law-term, "indent," which signifies a contract between two equal parties, gives countenance to our belief that the king refused to make a contract with vassals, who had, by their treasons, for. feited their fiefs.

impatient fool." (ACT I., Sc. 3.) Mr. R. G. White, in his very able volume, 'Shakspeare's Scholar,' advocates wasp-stung.

"In faith, my wilful lord, you are to blame." (ACT III., Sc. 1.)

This is the reading of the MS. Corrector, in the place of the original,―

"In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame."

Mr. Collier considers that the epithet wilful got misplaced, and, necessarily that too should be to.

The compound epithets which are frequent in Shakspere, were not understood by the Corrector. In the same way he has turned "senseless-obstinate," which Mr. Collier calls a strange and unmannerly compound, into "strict and abstinent."

"Farewell, All-hallown summer!"

All-hallows, or All-saints, day, is the first of November; a
November summer.

ANCIENT. Act IV., Sc. 2.

"More dishonourable ragged than an old-faced ancient."
An ancient was a standard; old-faced is old, patched up.
Ancients were the standard-bearers, in the same way as we
now use ensign for the flag and the bearer.

ARRAS. Act II., Sc. 4.

"Go, hide thee behind the arras.' The arras or tapestry was originally hung on hooks against the wall; subsequently it was hung on frames placed at some distance from the wall. The space between could therefore accommodate even Falstaff, though a difficulty has been made of it.

ARTICULATED. Act V., Sc. 1.

"These things, indeed, you have articulated."

Set out-exhibited-in articles.

BALK'D. Act I., Sc. 1.

"Balk'd in their own blood."

To balk is to raise into ridges. Thus in Minshew: "to balk, or make a balk, in earing of land."

"Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin."

Harrison, in his 'Description of England,' gives us "the names of our greatest ordnance." The basilisk, the largest of all, weighed 9000 lbs., and carried a ball of 60 lbs. ; the cannon weighed 7000 lbs., and also carried a ball of 60 lbs., if this weight is not a misprint, as seems likely; the culverin weighed 4000 lbs., and carried a ball of 18 lbs.

BAVIN. Act III., Sc. 2.

"With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits."

Bivins are bundles of brushwood used to kindle fires. The word is not yet wholly out of use in some localities.

BEAVER. Act IV.. Sc. 1. See 'Henry IV., Part II.'
BOOK. Act III., Sc. 1.

"By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.”
Book here means charter or deed. In our old history we find
the word boc-land or boke-land.

BRIEF. Act IV., Sc. 4.

"Bear this sealed brief."

A brief is a letter; the king's letter to the sheriff was formerly called a breve.

BUSKY. Act V., Sc. 1.

"Above yon busky hill!"

Busky is bosky, woody; from the French bosquet.

CADDIS. Act II., Sc. 4.

"Caddis garter," &c.

Caddis was a kind of worsted tape or ferret, often worn as garters by the common people in the time of Elizabeth. The prince, in describing the dress of the drawer's master, makes it as different as possible to that of the courtiers of the time.

CANKER. Act I., Sc. 3.

"And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?"

The canker is the dog-rose. See 'Much Ado About Nothing. CANSTICK. Act III., Sc. 1.

"I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd." Canstick is a not unusual word of our old poets for candlestick. CANTLE. Act III., Sc. 1.

66 A monstrous cantle out."

According to some etymologists, cantle is a corner, from the Dutch kant; Phillips, in his World of Words,' says it is a portion of anything, and in this sense Chaucer uses it :

"Of no partie ne cantel of a thing;"

And Shakspere again in 'Antony and Cleopatra,-
"The greater cantle of the world is lost."

CAPITULATE. Act III., Sc. 2.

To capitulate is to arrange the heads of an argument or agree.

ment.

CARBONADO. Act V., Sc. 3.

"Let him make a carbonado of me."

Carbonado, according to Cotgrave and Phillips, is meat broiled on the coals.